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View all search resultsRussia and Myanmar cooperating on military equipment supplies: Ifax
Rights activists have accused Moscow of legitimising Myanmar's junta, which seized power in a Feb. 1 coup, by continuing bilateral visits and arms deals.
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Myanmar's Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar armed forces, saluting to pay his respects to Myanmar independence hero General Aung San and eight others assassinated in 1947, during a ceremony to mark the 71th anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon. United Nations investigators on August 27, 2018 called for an international probe and prosecution of Myanmar's army chief Min Aung Hlaing and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country's Rohingya minority.
YE AUNG THU / AFP (AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
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ussia is cooperating closely with Myanmar to supply military hardware including aircraft, the Interfax news agency cited Alexander Mikheev, the head of Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport, as saying on Wednesday.
Rights activists have accused Moscow of legitimising Myanmar's junta, which seized power in a Feb. 1 coup, by continuing bilateral visits and arms deals.
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during his visit to the Russian capital last month that Moscow was committed to strengthening military ties.
Speaking on the sidelines of Russia's annual MAKS air show, which President Vladimir Putin attended on Tuesday, Mikheev said Myanmar is one of Rosoboronexport's key customers in south east Asia and a key partner of Rostec, Russia's state aerospace and defence conglomerate.
He gave no further details.
Defence ties between the two countries have grown in recent years with Moscow providing army training and university scholarships to thousands of soldiers, as well as selling arms to a military blacklisted by several Western countries.
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